Photographic vignetter.



Patented Nov. 26, l90l.

w. n. cosusuus & F. L. TODD.

PHOTOGRAPH") VIGNETTER.

(Application filed Apr. 13, 1901.)

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\VILLIAM D. CORNELIUS AND FRANK L. TODD, OF ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

PHOTOGRAPHIC VIGNETTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,604, dated November26, 1901.

Application filed April 13, 1901.

To (tZZ whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM D. CORNE- LIUs and FRANK L. TODD, citizensof the United States, and residents of Enid, in the county of Garfieldand Territory of Oklahoma, have invented a new and Improved PhotographicVignetter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of our invention is to provide a vignette attachment to acamera which is of novel simple construction, is adjustable relativelyto the position of the film or plate held in the camera, so as toterminate the image or picture of a vignetted photograph at any desiredpoint, and which is readily removable from the front of the camera whennot in service.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures Figure 1 is a perspective view ofa camera and of the invention thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan viewof the vignette-plate, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of thesupporting-frame for the vignette-plate.

In the drawings, 4 indicates a photographers camera of ordinaryconstruction, and 5 the supporting frame or bed whereon the camera isheld to slide, as usual.

Upon the front box-section of the camera 4 the ends of two similarcarrier-bars 6 are oppositely pivoted, and said bars are held in thesame plane by the intermediate braces 7 and 8, thebrace 7 being archedand the other brace 8 straight, the ends of the braces having securedengagement with the inner sides of the carrier-bars, as best shown inFig. 3.

The carrier-bars 6 are positioned a suitable distance below thelens-tube 4 of the camera and project outwardly therefrom to a properlength. In the top edges of the outer ends of the carrier-bars 6 notchesa. are formed, as indicated in Fig. 3.

The vignette or cut-0E plate 9, which may be of any suitable material,is mainly flat, the upper portion thereof being wider than Serialnae-5.654. on model.)

the lower part and may have its side edges parallel, as shown, or beotherwise shaped, as may be preferred.

The upper edge of the vignette or cut-off plate 9 is concaved a properdegree and may be serrated at the edge, as shown in the drawings, forartistic effect in service as a portrait-terminator in a vignettedportrait taken in the camera.

Below the widened upper portion of the vignette or cut-off plate 9 twoflanges 9 are formed oppositely on the side edges of the reduced portionof said plate, and from said flanges journal-studs a project in axialalinement with each other.

The journal-studs a are designed to seat in the notches a, and thussupport the vigir ette or cut-off plate 9 upon the outer ends of thecarrier-bars 6, disposing the lower portion of the said plate betweenand below the carrier-bars, as shown in Fig. 1.

A weight-block 9" or its equivalent is secured upon the lower part ofthe vignette or cut-off plate 9 and will serve to hold said platevertical without regard to the position given to the carrier-bars 6.

Upon the braces 7 and S, which may be joined together at theirtransverse centers, one end'of an upright elevating-bar 11 is pivoted,as at b, the lower end thereof having pivotal connection with theforward end of the adjusting-rod 12, as shown at b in Fig. 1,

Upon the supporting-frame 5 a bracketarm 13 is secured at the rear endthereof and is adapted to permit the adjusting-rod 12 to slidetherethrough, a set-screw c, that screws down through the bracket armfor engagement with the rod 12, affording means to hold the latter at adesired point of slidable adjustment.

In operation after the camera has been adjusted to properly position theimage of the upper portion of the person to be photographed upon thefilm or plate the artist can quickly adjust the improved vignette deviceby a longitudinal movement of the rod 12, which will work thecarrier-bars 6 upor down at their outer ends, as may be required, toproperly position the concave upper edge of the vignette or cut-0E plate9 with regard to the effect it is to produce when a picture is imaged onan exposed film or plate held in the camera.

Having thus fully described our invention, We claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The combination with a camera, a framecomprising two spaced and braced carrierbars pivoted by opposite ends onthe sides of the camera so as to rock in front thereof, an adjusting-rod slidable on the supporting-bed of the camera, through abracket-arm, a setscrew carried by the arm and bearing upon the rod tosecure it when adjusted, and an elevating-bar pivoted by its lower endupon the forward end of the adjusting-rod and jointed at its upper endupon the rockable frame, of a vignette-plate scalloped on the upperedge, two journal-studs oppositely projected from the side edges of thevignette-plate and held to rock on the outer ends of the carrier- 2cbars, and a weight-block on the lower portion of the vignette-plateadapted to rock said plate into a vertical plane.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of 25 two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM D. CORNELIUS. FRANK L. TODD.

Witnesses as to signature of William D. Cornelius:

J. R. PARKS, (J. W. ALLRED. \Vitnesses as to signature of Frank L. ToddTHOMAS O. HASS, FRED. W, STEVENS.

